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The Sun. (North Canton, Stark County, Ohio), 1964-07-29

1964-07-29-001

WHAT A WAY TO GO!
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Vol. 38 — No. 45
2 Sections—12 Pages
NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1964
10c Per Cow.
Safe Place
City Receives Third
Citation From AAA
You Are Part of The Plan
Yes, North Canton does have a plan. Furthermore, it
will soon have another plan. First details of the new plan
are to be (Outlined Thursday night, July 30, at a meeting of
the Citizens for Progress of North Canton. All citizens are
urged to alttend. the meeting at 8 p.m. in the auditorium
of Hoover High.
However, buying plan after plan is not enough. This
citizenry can build a stockpile of blueprints and printed
pages that wouM make New York planning firms rich and
area planning groups envious, and not realize one iota of
CIVIC PROGRESS. •
These plans are like road maps, they show the way;
they are like tools, used properly they can fashion raw
material into a finished product.
In a changing world, road maps must be constantly
updated — just so any plan. Any tool devised requires continual care and maintenance — likewise the plan.
Okay, you say, where do I, the ordinary John Doe fit
into, the scheme of things. I have .trouble planning my own
home. I'm no engineer, financier or architect.
It is true that not many of us have thousands of dollars to donate to community improvement, (most don't have
it even for self-improvement), or the professional background to, develop an ideal City — but all of us, from 5 to
95,'have been endowed by our Creator with varied talents
and abilities that, when used for the good of others, cannot
help' but bring progress — materially and spiritually
• Just as R. H. Weston used his sign-making ability tc
beautify a City park area, each of us can put our mark
upon the face of North Canton. And, many of us can start
at home. Jimmy can.mow the lawn and trim the hedges.
Mapc can invest m~ a new:'- sidewalk;" Mary can prune thv
rose bush and weed the flower bed.
Then, go a step farther. Attend Thursday night's
meeting. Find out the facts. Offer your ideas and suggestions. Volunteer your services. Let us all work together
for an ever better, friendlier, prettier North Canton —
your town and mine.
No Federal Invasion
The climate of hostility, violence and lawlessness that
permeates the state of Mississippi and the city of New
York, is profoundly disturbing to many Americans in other
cities and states. Reports of what is going on in Mississippi
- reports of hate and terror, of bombings, shootings anc.
widespread intimidation - make other Americans feel thaJ
more ought to be done by federal government than has
yet been done.
It is.with this in mind that one should consider the
recommendations made by eight directors of the Nations
Association for the Advancement of Colored People after i
tour of Mississippi. They have branded Mississippi as a
"police state", and want its administration taken over by
the federal government.
For Washington to follow this advice would be a grave
and far-reaching mistake. Nothing would more surely inflame the last-ditch segregationists, not only in Mississippi
but throughout the South, than for the federal government
to come in and take over a state as if it were a hostile
foreign power.
The NAACP leaders are, we believe, honorable men
horrified by what they have seen in Mississippi. They are
not, as President Johnson charged in refusing to see them,
"agitators." They are men concerned, as all who believe
in equal justice under law must be, at the evidence of overt
and covert r; sistance to the Jaw of the land which is being
demonstrated in Mississippi and New York City. But a
federal takeover is not the answer.
There may be good cause for increasing the federal
presence, as indeed is being done with establishment of a
large new FRI office in Jackson. But there also is reason
to hope that an inclination here and there toward compliance with the civil rights law will spread if encouraged.
This is a time for coolness and patience, not for federal invasion.
North Canton was awai'ded its third Pedestrian Safety
Citation in eight years by the Canton AAA Thursday, July
23.
Police Chief Robert Fulk and Mayor Charles Strausser
were on hand at City Hall to receive the plaque presented
by Don L. Shrag, general manager of the Canton Automobile Club. - ' ;■■ , r , .
The City had previously won
the award in 1961 and 11962.
The citation is given as a part
of the 1964 AAA National Pedestrian 'Program Appraisal.
North Canton entered the appraisal as one of 512 cities reporting in the 10,000 to 25,000
population group. A total of
1,557 cities in various population
groups reported from 35 states.
Law Death,' Injury Bates
'North Canton scored 60 percent of a possible 1,000 points
to receive the Citation. The City
also scored 82 percent on the
Jeath and Injury Record and
51 percent on Pedestrian Program.
Tne average number ol pedestrian 'deaths per .city in
North Canton's population
gnoup was .33. Chief Fulk reported none in North Canton in
'963, .bringing our pedestrian
death rate to none for the year,
as compared to the national
average of 2.2.
Another low score was report-
id in pedestrian injuries —•
North Canton had only four in
1963, wlren the average per city
•as 9.6. This figure brings
North Canton's pedestrian injury rate to 33, as contrasted to
52, the national average.
In discussing North Canton's
iting, iMn. Shrag commented that the City's pedestrian
program could be improved
/ith .more crossing lights, other
than at the Square.
He added that North Canton
rated very highly with other
•ities. "The people of North
Canton and their, officials are to
ie complimented on their fine
ecord as compared to other
't'es." he said.
The program's Grand Awa.rd
.-Tinners-r.were- Seattle, Wash.,
■ver 500.000 population; Ta-
:oma, Wash., 100,000 to 500,00
lopulation, and Greenwich,
Conn., under, 100,000 population.
Register in August
For Slcry Hour
Registration cards will be
available at the 'North Canton
and 'Greentown Public Libraries during the month of August
for 'Pre-sehool Story Hour, for
Children who will be four vears
Jd toy Sept. 15.
- The classes at the North Canton Library will be co-sponsored toy the Fre-School Mothers
Club of North Canton. The
Greentown P.T.A. will co-sponsor classes at the Greentown
Library.
To be eligible, the pre-school
Child must reside within the
North Canton School District,
the City of North Canton or the
Greentown School District. He
must become five years of age
between Sept. 16, 1964 and Sept.
15, 1965.
Registration cards are not to
be mailed before Sept. 1.
Classes meet once a ; week
from 9 to 9:45 a.m. "at the
North Canton Library. Those
going to 'Greentown will foe notified of their time.
The day of the week the child
will attend is to be decided by
dividing North Canton into sections for the 'convenience of car
pools. Plans are to follow as
closely as possible the, same
sections as last year.
North Canton Story Hour
chairman this year is Mrs. Alfred Laursen, 499-5475. Co-
chairman is Mrs. Kenneth
West, 499-3553.
'Greentown chairman is Mrs.
Fred Rife, 499-4703.
-In ••- reGent - years, • the:< u«oeUi
Canton Library has conducted
a one-day workshop to train interested area mothers in storytelling.
We've Been Planning
(EDITOR'S NOTE — This is the last article in a series
on North Canton planning. North Canton is in the midst'of
writing a new chapter in its history, paragraphs of which
will be devoted to this Thursday's meeting at Hoover High.
It is at this meeting that the newly-hired planning firm of
Clarke and Rapuano is to make public its initial reactions
and recommendations. We hope every North Canton citizen
will help evolve the latest link in the community's long chain
of service and leadership.
It should be noted that in the "We've Been Planning,"
Article 3, which appeared in the July 22 issue of The Sun,'
the name of Ralph Norman was inadvertently left out as a
member of the Planning Commission. Mr. I Gorman currently
is chairman of this body of planners.)
KSU Prof. Bill Taylor
Given P.R. Fellowship
Rotarians Tour
Nobis Plant
A War We Favor
We are peace-loving by nature but there is one kind
of warfare that we heartily endorse—unrestricted war on
littering.
That's because litterbugs are again out in full force,
now that pleasant picnic weather has arrived. These people,
who exhibit no consideration whatever for others, are
strewing parks, beaches, highways, byways, forests and
wilderness areas with mountains of litter. So
serious has the situation become that each year more and
more private streams and woodlands are denied to sportsmen, picnickers and hikers.
litterbugs are not only a nuisance, they are causing
heavy drains on the public purse. Taxpayers are now forced
to put up half a million dollars a year to clean up the mess
litterers leave. In some areas it costs as much as ten cents
a pound to compensate cleaning brigades for the trash collected.
The only sure way to end, or at least confine, the
litter=plague is1 for every picnicker, motorist, hiker, hunter
and fisherman to become self-appointed guardians of America's scenic beauty and to stick closely to the rules of clean
outdoor conduct by placing discards in proper receptacles.
Prof. William Taylor
iProfessor William Taylor of
Kent State University has toeen
awarded the first international
p u to 1 i c relations fellowship
awarded ,by the Foundation for
Public Relations Research.
Sponsored by The Timken Roller Bearing Co., Professor Taylor will work in its British Timken Division in Duston, England.
Professor Taylor, long active
in public relations circles, is
the only person in Ohio to have
twice won the Governor's
Award for bringing prestige to
the state. The first award was
in 1950 and the second in 1960.
Working with British Timken
Division officials during the
month* of August, Professor
Taylor will assist in the arrangements and publicity coverage of the iannual British Timken Fair.
Similar to the American county fair, tout on a larger scale,
the British Timken Fair attracts thousands of visitors each
vear. The International Horse
Show is a part of the Fair,
which is covered by the British
Broadcasting Company on radio and television.
Professor Taylor will return
to his• position on the Kent
State University faculty in September.
North Canton Rotarians will
be visiting Nobis Decorating
Thursday night. July 30, following their weekly dinner meeting.
The club 'members will meet
at 6:30 at Community Christian Church for supper.
Following the meal and brief
business meeting, Rotarians
.vill tour the facilities of the
North Canton firm, which is toe-
coming known thro'i ghout the
country for its fine stained
glass windows.
Rotarians Exchange
Slides With
Auslralian Brothers
Ask tor Donations To Help
Promote World Understanding
To further international understanding, the North Canton
Rotary Club is preparing a
slide program on North Canton
to exchange with a "brother"
club in Australia.
The exchange program will-
be with the club serving the
Australian communities of
Wynnam and Manley, both located near Brisbane.
The Rev. Robert Hibbard,
chairman of the local club's International Service Committee,
has issued a request for donations of slides on public buildings and civic activities that
may be used to complete the local program.
These slides will form the
program for the local club's
first meeting in October and
then will be forwarded to the
(Continued on Page 5)
Biking Beats Hiking
It was hot Friday, July 117—
hardly the kind of day when a
long bike ride is a tempting
prospect. Nevertheless, 15-year-
old Dave Dull chose that afternoon to make a 98-mile bicycle
trip to Wellsbuig, W. Va.
Dave, who left North Canton
at 1:30 p.m., followed Route 43
to Steubenvil'le and then took
Route 2 into Wellsburg. He
averaged 25 miles per hour on
the road, although frequent dips
in a creek, necessitated by the
91-degree heat, caused some delay.
He reached his destination,
the home of his aunt and un
cle, Mr. and Mrs. William Pos-
telthwait, at 9:15 the same evening.'
Dave's mother, Mrs. Paul Albert of 410 Heatherwood, admits that she was somewhat
worried and says, "I was glad
to hear the phone ring at 9:15
that night."
The- return trip Sunday, July
19, also was made by bicycle,
along routes 45 and 30.
A Hoover High School junior,
Dave rides his bike to summer
school classes at McKinley
High School and to work at the
Ideal Drive-In south of Union-
town — about 28 miles dally.
St. Luke's Home Cornerstone
Will Go In Place Sunday
The formal cornerstone-laying ceremony for St. Luke's
Lutheran Home for the Aged has been set for 3 p.m. (DST)
Sunday, Aug. 2.
The public is invited to attend the ceremony at the
home site on Applegrove St., one-half mile east of Rt. 8.
dress will toe the Rev. L. iPaul
Mueller of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Canton. The Rev.
Ronald Wolter of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will be
the litu.gist.
Also featured on the program
will be an anthem by the Bethel Lutheran Choir accompanied
by the church organist, Tvvilla
Matoie.
The actual cornerstone will
contain many articles, including the papers for the corporation and direction of the home;
a copy of a recent church paper from each of the churches
participating in the home; a recent copy of the Canton Repository; and a (1964 Kennedy half-
dollar.
The footers and foundation
for the 88-bed home have been
completed and work has begun
on the first and second floors.
Applications are already toeing accepted for the home
which will have separate wings
for men, women and married
couples. Featured -will toe a
central lounge, reading and dining rooms, a beauty salon and
barbershop.
■Also to be enjoyed toy the
residents will toe rooms for
physical therapy, arts and
crafts and games. The chapel
will seat 100 persons so that
visitors and family members
may join together, in church
services.
According to Mrs. Wayne W.
Hootoler, president of the board
of trustees, gifts are needed to
complete the structure as planned. These may be made on a
three-year pledge plan to any
Lutheran church or to: St.
Luke's Lutheran Home for tne
Aged, 705 - 37th St. NW, Canton. All donations .are tax deductible.
WEEDS
WON'T
WILT
Despite the heat wave
which has nearly wilted the
area populace, North Canton weeds are thriving.
Their doom will soon be
seald, as August rolls
around this weekend. City
ordinance provides for
weeds to toe chopped twice
yearly — once in June and
again in August.
The weed patches not felled in June have been cut
toy the City and billed to the
property owner. However,
according to City Administrator Chester L. Sterling
with only one man and one
machine 'to do the job and
also keep parks and playgrounds trimmed, the job
is a slow one. He asks that
as many property owners
as possible take the responsibility for keeping
their own weeds down for
the safety and beauty of
their neighborhood and
neighbors.
Just a year ago, North Cantonites were vacation - bound
with the thoughts of Master
Plan, a newer, better North
Canton, and "Operation PLAN"
whirling through their minds.
Amid the heat, they contemplated facts learned at the public hearing held June 17, 1963,
at Dogwood Park; they read
over information sheets collected at the Citizen's Advisory
Committee's JayCee Fair Booth
and some even perused the
three volumes of the Comprehensive Survey and Master
Plan prepared for .the City toy
Ebasco of New York City.
Interest in City planning and
the puouc hearing on tne same
Was promoted toy the advisory
committee during its "Operation PLAN Week," held June
10-17.
The committee had just been
taken over by Robert Davis, after the Rev. Francis Park, who
was the first chairman, had to
resign for health reasons.
Others serving on the committee, formed in October, 1962,
included William W. Baines
(now councilman from Ward
U, Paul >G. Banser, bank executive; Ron Chorian, insurance
iiian; Donald A. Davis, 'Y'
executive director; Robert Da-
vns, Ford motor supervisor;
William DeMarsh, automobile
dealer; Ray .Gillman, Hoover
public relations director;
George Gross, investor; Robert
Harper, certified public accountant; E. R. Malone, superintendent of schools; the Rev.
Mr. Park, pastor of Northmins-
ter United Presbyterian
Church; Elton W. Ports, Ohio
Bell telephone supervisor'; Vernon Sell, publisher; J. L. Shafer, insurance; A. H. Stipes
businessman; Mrs. Marie Surbey, realtor; Dave VanDyke,
oank teller; Paul A. Wayne,
Ohio Power executive; Mrs.
Russell Willaman, women's civic leader; and Gus W. Zielas-
ko, attorney.
The 22 - mem'ber 'committee
was formed to promote recommendations of the plan, to provide a sounding board for the
community as a whole and to
foster implementation of the
plan.
The committee developed a
four - pronged citizens program
as follows: follow news releases in the local paper concerning planning; understand existing zoning; keep in mind that
every -mistake made in planning in the past is magnified
today and that every mistake
today will toe magnified by
time, and to foe informed and
became a booster of planning.
Among the areas where improvement was suggested toy
the committee were: 'housing,
for elderly in the center of
town, a brochure on North
Canton, a specific and systematic program of annexation,
proper building codes to cover'
present and future expansion,
additional parking in the center
of town, a good restaurant and
cafeteria, a motel, a public auditorium and convention center,
a hospital and more doctor's offices, additional space and
modernization of City Hall, an
enlarged and beautified Square
Dogwood flowers and trees
along Main St. (to carry out
Dogwood City theme), improved lighting on all City streets,
adult and-or community college
education programs, proper
surfacing of all City streets,
better tous service and a tous
terminal, AM or FM radio station and educational TV channel, scholarship foundation, new
administration touilding, face
lifting for tousiness district, in
door, pool, clean - up and fix-up
and paint-up week, teenage center, another fire building,
change name of 'community, independent sewer plant facilities, a full-time publicity de-
qartment, a department store
and-or junior department store,
an industrial park, city - wide
water softening program, better park facilities, more
through streets, outdoor recreation for senior citizens, speed
flow of traffic through town, cut
cornep at Square, attract more
and varied stores, sell North
Canton as a desirable residential area.
With approximately 100 persons attending, Thomas Moore,
planning director of Ebasco, reviewed the North Canton plan
at the hearing held at Dogwood
Park.
He stressed that the plan was
not a magic pill, but just another tool. "The plan won't do
anything for you unless you use
it," both he and Walter Bobo-
teck of the Ohio Department, oif
Development told the audience.
He also emphasized that the
City's growth would continue—
plan or no plan.
Among the questions and answers at this meeting were the
following:
Q. Can a property owner be
forced to sell?
A. No, even though involved
in .the planning, a resident is
not required to sell.
Q. How can we be sure that
zoning restrictions won't be easily enanged toy a person or a
group?
A. There is no certain way
that zoning won't be changed
for self interest; however, Planning Commission and Council
thinking generally reflects the
wishes of the majority of people. ■:■■■■
Q. Why are expensive outside
consultants so necessary, when
City has qualified people?
A. First of all, said Mr.
Moore, planning expertsare-not
expensive judged on the amount
of work. Secondly, he continued, outsiders are more objective and they have specialized technical knowledge, not always available on the local level. He pointed to the vast
amount of manpower required
to complete the project and
suggested a planning staff for
future guidance.
Q. Are 2-acre restrictions fair
or good planning?
A. High density development
places demands on services
which frequently burdens the
City unjustly. Other states, have
held on 3, 5 op even 10-acre
•zoning, he added.
Q. How can the City establish a mall between Harmon
and Maple without condemning
property?
A. Most of proposed mall is
now an alley. Phase I suggests
widening the alley; P h a s e II,
turning it into a mall. "North
Canton i« w>vy & CJtv and must
think as a City," said the planner. "A city can condemn property for the public welfare."
Q. What have the planners
recommended as proper use
for the Hoover right-of-way?
A. Nothing.
Q. To what extent was the
Stark County Regional Planning
Commission used ind if not,
why not?
A. The Regional Planning
Commission jnrov'ided substantial data and ifreojieht conferences with its Staff were held.
Commission services are competent, the planner added.
Following this meeting, on
July 8, City Council, in regular
session, approved the Master
'Plan. Witnessing Council's acceptance were .10 members of
the Citizens Advisory Committee.
Since that time, Council has
put several of the recommendations into action.
Following the recommendations outlined by Etoasco in its
Master Plan for North Canton,
City Council hired the Stark
County Regional Planning Commission to prepare a new zoning ordinance.
Preliminary drafts of this ordinance have already been submitted to Council. "We hope to
have the new zoning ordinance
"•well on its way to passage toy
the end of this year,' Mayor
Charles B. Strausser revealed.
He added that the City hopes
to have the regional planning
group start on a revision of the
regulations for platting subdivisions by the end of this year.
Many new ordinances have
(Continued on Page 3)
All Citizens Urged to Attend Planning Meeting Thurs
' , 8;fi0 E.M. at Hoover High School is time and place of first report of City Planners — Come — Hear —' Heljj

WHAT A WAY TO GO!
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Vol. 38 — No. 45
2 Sections—12 Pages
NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1964
10c Per Cow.
Safe Place
City Receives Third
Citation From AAA
You Are Part of The Plan
Yes, North Canton does have a plan. Furthermore, it
will soon have another plan. First details of the new plan
are to be (Outlined Thursday night, July 30, at a meeting of
the Citizens for Progress of North Canton. All citizens are
urged to alttend. the meeting at 8 p.m. in the auditorium
of Hoover High.
However, buying plan after plan is not enough. This
citizenry can build a stockpile of blueprints and printed
pages that wouM make New York planning firms rich and
area planning groups envious, and not realize one iota of
CIVIC PROGRESS. •
These plans are like road maps, they show the way;
they are like tools, used properly they can fashion raw
material into a finished product.
In a changing world, road maps must be constantly
updated — just so any plan. Any tool devised requires continual care and maintenance — likewise the plan.
Okay, you say, where do I, the ordinary John Doe fit
into, the scheme of things. I have .trouble planning my own
home. I'm no engineer, financier or architect.
It is true that not many of us have thousands of dollars to donate to community improvement, (most don't have
it even for self-improvement), or the professional background to, develop an ideal City — but all of us, from 5 to
95,'have been endowed by our Creator with varied talents
and abilities that, when used for the good of others, cannot
help' but bring progress — materially and spiritually
• Just as R. H. Weston used his sign-making ability tc
beautify a City park area, each of us can put our mark
upon the face of North Canton. And, many of us can start
at home. Jimmy can.mow the lawn and trim the hedges.
Mapc can invest m~ a new:'- sidewalk;" Mary can prune thv
rose bush and weed the flower bed.
Then, go a step farther. Attend Thursday night's
meeting. Find out the facts. Offer your ideas and suggestions. Volunteer your services. Let us all work together
for an ever better, friendlier, prettier North Canton —
your town and mine.
No Federal Invasion
The climate of hostility, violence and lawlessness that
permeates the state of Mississippi and the city of New
York, is profoundly disturbing to many Americans in other
cities and states. Reports of what is going on in Mississippi
- reports of hate and terror, of bombings, shootings anc.
widespread intimidation - make other Americans feel thaJ
more ought to be done by federal government than has
yet been done.
It is.with this in mind that one should consider the
recommendations made by eight directors of the Nations
Association for the Advancement of Colored People after i
tour of Mississippi. They have branded Mississippi as a
"police state", and want its administration taken over by
the federal government.
For Washington to follow this advice would be a grave
and far-reaching mistake. Nothing would more surely inflame the last-ditch segregationists, not only in Mississippi
but throughout the South, than for the federal government
to come in and take over a state as if it were a hostile
foreign power.
The NAACP leaders are, we believe, honorable men
horrified by what they have seen in Mississippi. They are
not, as President Johnson charged in refusing to see them,
"agitators." They are men concerned, as all who believe
in equal justice under law must be, at the evidence of overt
and covert r; sistance to the Jaw of the land which is being
demonstrated in Mississippi and New York City. But a
federal takeover is not the answer.
There may be good cause for increasing the federal
presence, as indeed is being done with establishment of a
large new FRI office in Jackson. But there also is reason
to hope that an inclination here and there toward compliance with the civil rights law will spread if encouraged.
This is a time for coolness and patience, not for federal invasion.
North Canton was awai'ded its third Pedestrian Safety
Citation in eight years by the Canton AAA Thursday, July
23.
Police Chief Robert Fulk and Mayor Charles Strausser
were on hand at City Hall to receive the plaque presented
by Don L. Shrag, general manager of the Canton Automobile Club. - ' ;■■ , r , .
The City had previously won
the award in 1961 and 11962.
The citation is given as a part
of the 1964 AAA National Pedestrian 'Program Appraisal.
North Canton entered the appraisal as one of 512 cities reporting in the 10,000 to 25,000
population group. A total of
1,557 cities in various population
groups reported from 35 states.
Law Death,' Injury Bates
'North Canton scored 60 percent of a possible 1,000 points
to receive the Citation. The City
also scored 82 percent on the
Jeath and Injury Record and
51 percent on Pedestrian Program.
Tne average number ol pedestrian 'deaths per .city in
North Canton's population
gnoup was .33. Chief Fulk reported none in North Canton in
'963, .bringing our pedestrian
death rate to none for the year,
as compared to the national
average of 2.2.
Another low score was report-
id in pedestrian injuries —•
North Canton had only four in
1963, wlren the average per city
•as 9.6. This figure brings
North Canton's pedestrian injury rate to 33, as contrasted to
52, the national average.
In discussing North Canton's
iting, iMn. Shrag commented that the City's pedestrian
program could be improved
/ith .more crossing lights, other
than at the Square.
He added that North Canton
rated very highly with other
•ities. "The people of North
Canton and their, officials are to
ie complimented on their fine
ecord as compared to other
't'es." he said.
The program's Grand Awa.rd
.-Tinners-r.were- Seattle, Wash.,
■ver 500.000 population; Ta-
:oma, Wash., 100,000 to 500,00
lopulation, and Greenwich,
Conn., under, 100,000 population.
Register in August
For Slcry Hour
Registration cards will be
available at the 'North Canton
and 'Greentown Public Libraries during the month of August
for 'Pre-sehool Story Hour, for
Children who will be four vears
Jd toy Sept. 15.
- The classes at the North Canton Library will be co-sponsored toy the Fre-School Mothers
Club of North Canton. The
Greentown P.T.A. will co-sponsor classes at the Greentown
Library.
To be eligible, the pre-school
Child must reside within the
North Canton School District,
the City of North Canton or the
Greentown School District. He
must become five years of age
between Sept. 16, 1964 and Sept.
15, 1965.
Registration cards are not to
be mailed before Sept. 1.
Classes meet once a ; week
from 9 to 9:45 a.m. "at the
North Canton Library. Those
going to 'Greentown will foe notified of their time.
The day of the week the child
will attend is to be decided by
dividing North Canton into sections for the 'convenience of car
pools. Plans are to follow as
closely as possible the, same
sections as last year.
North Canton Story Hour
chairman this year is Mrs. Alfred Laursen, 499-5475. Co-
chairman is Mrs. Kenneth
West, 499-3553.
'Greentown chairman is Mrs.
Fred Rife, 499-4703.
-In ••- reGent - years, • the:< u«oeUi
Canton Library has conducted
a one-day workshop to train interested area mothers in storytelling.
We've Been Planning
(EDITOR'S NOTE — This is the last article in a series
on North Canton planning. North Canton is in the midst'of
writing a new chapter in its history, paragraphs of which
will be devoted to this Thursday's meeting at Hoover High.
It is at this meeting that the newly-hired planning firm of
Clarke and Rapuano is to make public its initial reactions
and recommendations. We hope every North Canton citizen
will help evolve the latest link in the community's long chain
of service and leadership.
It should be noted that in the "We've Been Planning,"
Article 3, which appeared in the July 22 issue of The Sun,'
the name of Ralph Norman was inadvertently left out as a
member of the Planning Commission. Mr. I Gorman currently
is chairman of this body of planners.)
KSU Prof. Bill Taylor
Given P.R. Fellowship
Rotarians Tour
Nobis Plant
A War We Favor
We are peace-loving by nature but there is one kind
of warfare that we heartily endorse—unrestricted war on
littering.
That's because litterbugs are again out in full force,
now that pleasant picnic weather has arrived. These people,
who exhibit no consideration whatever for others, are
strewing parks, beaches, highways, byways, forests and
wilderness areas with mountains of litter. So
serious has the situation become that each year more and
more private streams and woodlands are denied to sportsmen, picnickers and hikers.
litterbugs are not only a nuisance, they are causing
heavy drains on the public purse. Taxpayers are now forced
to put up half a million dollars a year to clean up the mess
litterers leave. In some areas it costs as much as ten cents
a pound to compensate cleaning brigades for the trash collected.
The only sure way to end, or at least confine, the
litter=plague is1 for every picnicker, motorist, hiker, hunter
and fisherman to become self-appointed guardians of America's scenic beauty and to stick closely to the rules of clean
outdoor conduct by placing discards in proper receptacles.
Prof. William Taylor
iProfessor William Taylor of
Kent State University has toeen
awarded the first international
p u to 1 i c relations fellowship
awarded ,by the Foundation for
Public Relations Research.
Sponsored by The Timken Roller Bearing Co., Professor Taylor will work in its British Timken Division in Duston, England.
Professor Taylor, long active
in public relations circles, is
the only person in Ohio to have
twice won the Governor's
Award for bringing prestige to
the state. The first award was
in 1950 and the second in 1960.
Working with British Timken
Division officials during the
month* of August, Professor
Taylor will assist in the arrangements and publicity coverage of the iannual British Timken Fair.
Similar to the American county fair, tout on a larger scale,
the British Timken Fair attracts thousands of visitors each
vear. The International Horse
Show is a part of the Fair,
which is covered by the British
Broadcasting Company on radio and television.
Professor Taylor will return
to his• position on the Kent
State University faculty in September.
North Canton Rotarians will
be visiting Nobis Decorating
Thursday night. July 30, following their weekly dinner meeting.
The club 'members will meet
at 6:30 at Community Christian Church for supper.
Following the meal and brief
business meeting, Rotarians
.vill tour the facilities of the
North Canton firm, which is toe-
coming known thro'i ghout the
country for its fine stained
glass windows.
Rotarians Exchange
Slides With
Auslralian Brothers
Ask tor Donations To Help
Promote World Understanding
To further international understanding, the North Canton
Rotary Club is preparing a
slide program on North Canton
to exchange with a "brother"
club in Australia.
The exchange program will-
be with the club serving the
Australian communities of
Wynnam and Manley, both located near Brisbane.
The Rev. Robert Hibbard,
chairman of the local club's International Service Committee,
has issued a request for donations of slides on public buildings and civic activities that
may be used to complete the local program.
These slides will form the
program for the local club's
first meeting in October and
then will be forwarded to the
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Biking Beats Hiking
It was hot Friday, July 117—
hardly the kind of day when a
long bike ride is a tempting
prospect. Nevertheless, 15-year-
old Dave Dull chose that afternoon to make a 98-mile bicycle
trip to Wellsbuig, W. Va.
Dave, who left North Canton
at 1:30 p.m., followed Route 43
to Steubenvil'le and then took
Route 2 into Wellsburg. He
averaged 25 miles per hour on
the road, although frequent dips
in a creek, necessitated by the
91-degree heat, caused some delay.
He reached his destination,
the home of his aunt and un
cle, Mr. and Mrs. William Pos-
telthwait, at 9:15 the same evening.'
Dave's mother, Mrs. Paul Albert of 410 Heatherwood, admits that she was somewhat
worried and says, "I was glad
to hear the phone ring at 9:15
that night."
The- return trip Sunday, July
19, also was made by bicycle,
along routes 45 and 30.
A Hoover High School junior,
Dave rides his bike to summer
school classes at McKinley
High School and to work at the
Ideal Drive-In south of Union-
town — about 28 miles dally.
St. Luke's Home Cornerstone
Will Go In Place Sunday
The formal cornerstone-laying ceremony for St. Luke's
Lutheran Home for the Aged has been set for 3 p.m. (DST)
Sunday, Aug. 2.
The public is invited to attend the ceremony at the
home site on Applegrove St., one-half mile east of Rt. 8.
dress will toe the Rev. L. iPaul
Mueller of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Canton. The Rev.
Ronald Wolter of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will be
the litu.gist.
Also featured on the program
will be an anthem by the Bethel Lutheran Choir accompanied
by the church organist, Tvvilla
Matoie.
The actual cornerstone will
contain many articles, including the papers for the corporation and direction of the home;
a copy of a recent church paper from each of the churches
participating in the home; a recent copy of the Canton Repository; and a (1964 Kennedy half-
dollar.
The footers and foundation
for the 88-bed home have been
completed and work has begun
on the first and second floors.
Applications are already toeing accepted for the home
which will have separate wings
for men, women and married
couples. Featured -will toe a
central lounge, reading and dining rooms, a beauty salon and
barbershop.
■Also to be enjoyed toy the
residents will toe rooms for
physical therapy, arts and
crafts and games. The chapel
will seat 100 persons so that
visitors and family members
may join together, in church
services.
According to Mrs. Wayne W.
Hootoler, president of the board
of trustees, gifts are needed to
complete the structure as planned. These may be made on a
three-year pledge plan to any
Lutheran church or to: St.
Luke's Lutheran Home for tne
Aged, 705 - 37th St. NW, Canton. All donations .are tax deductible.
WEEDS
WON'T
WILT
Despite the heat wave
which has nearly wilted the
area populace, North Canton weeds are thriving.
Their doom will soon be
seald, as August rolls
around this weekend. City
ordinance provides for
weeds to toe chopped twice
yearly — once in June and
again in August.
The weed patches not felled in June have been cut
toy the City and billed to the
property owner. However,
according to City Administrator Chester L. Sterling
with only one man and one
machine 'to do the job and
also keep parks and playgrounds trimmed, the job
is a slow one. He asks that
as many property owners
as possible take the responsibility for keeping
their own weeds down for
the safety and beauty of
their neighborhood and
neighbors.
Just a year ago, North Cantonites were vacation - bound
with the thoughts of Master
Plan, a newer, better North
Canton, and "Operation PLAN"
whirling through their minds.
Amid the heat, they contemplated facts learned at the public hearing held June 17, 1963,
at Dogwood Park; they read
over information sheets collected at the Citizen's Advisory
Committee's JayCee Fair Booth
and some even perused the
three volumes of the Comprehensive Survey and Master
Plan prepared for .the City toy
Ebasco of New York City.
Interest in City planning and
the puouc hearing on tne same
Was promoted toy the advisory
committee during its "Operation PLAN Week," held June
10-17.
The committee had just been
taken over by Robert Davis, after the Rev. Francis Park, who
was the first chairman, had to
resign for health reasons.
Others serving on the committee, formed in October, 1962,
included William W. Baines
(now councilman from Ward
U, Paul >G. Banser, bank executive; Ron Chorian, insurance
iiian; Donald A. Davis, 'Y'
executive director; Robert Da-
vns, Ford motor supervisor;
William DeMarsh, automobile
dealer; Ray .Gillman, Hoover
public relations director;
George Gross, investor; Robert
Harper, certified public accountant; E. R. Malone, superintendent of schools; the Rev.
Mr. Park, pastor of Northmins-
ter United Presbyterian
Church; Elton W. Ports, Ohio
Bell telephone supervisor'; Vernon Sell, publisher; J. L. Shafer, insurance; A. H. Stipes
businessman; Mrs. Marie Surbey, realtor; Dave VanDyke,
oank teller; Paul A. Wayne,
Ohio Power executive; Mrs.
Russell Willaman, women's civic leader; and Gus W. Zielas-
ko, attorney.
The 22 - mem'ber 'committee
was formed to promote recommendations of the plan, to provide a sounding board for the
community as a whole and to
foster implementation of the
plan.
The committee developed a
four - pronged citizens program
as follows: follow news releases in the local paper concerning planning; understand existing zoning; keep in mind that
every -mistake made in planning in the past is magnified
today and that every mistake
today will toe magnified by
time, and to foe informed and
became a booster of planning.
Among the areas where improvement was suggested toy
the committee were: 'housing,
for elderly in the center of
town, a brochure on North
Canton, a specific and systematic program of annexation,
proper building codes to cover'
present and future expansion,
additional parking in the center
of town, a good restaurant and
cafeteria, a motel, a public auditorium and convention center,
a hospital and more doctor's offices, additional space and
modernization of City Hall, an
enlarged and beautified Square
Dogwood flowers and trees
along Main St. (to carry out
Dogwood City theme), improved lighting on all City streets,
adult and-or community college
education programs, proper
surfacing of all City streets,
better tous service and a tous
terminal, AM or FM radio station and educational TV channel, scholarship foundation, new
administration touilding, face
lifting for tousiness district, in
door, pool, clean - up and fix-up
and paint-up week, teenage center, another fire building,
change name of 'community, independent sewer plant facilities, a full-time publicity de-
qartment, a department store
and-or junior department store,
an industrial park, city - wide
water softening program, better park facilities, more
through streets, outdoor recreation for senior citizens, speed
flow of traffic through town, cut
cornep at Square, attract more
and varied stores, sell North
Canton as a desirable residential area.
With approximately 100 persons attending, Thomas Moore,
planning director of Ebasco, reviewed the North Canton plan
at the hearing held at Dogwood
Park.
He stressed that the plan was
not a magic pill, but just another tool. "The plan won't do
anything for you unless you use
it," both he and Walter Bobo-
teck of the Ohio Department, oif
Development told the audience.
He also emphasized that the
City's growth would continue—
plan or no plan.
Among the questions and answers at this meeting were the
following:
Q. Can a property owner be
forced to sell?
A. No, even though involved
in .the planning, a resident is
not required to sell.
Q. How can we be sure that
zoning restrictions won't be easily enanged toy a person or a
group?
A. There is no certain way
that zoning won't be changed
for self interest; however, Planning Commission and Council
thinking generally reflects the
wishes of the majority of people. ■:■■■■
Q. Why are expensive outside
consultants so necessary, when
City has qualified people?
A. First of all, said Mr.
Moore, planning expertsare-not
expensive judged on the amount
of work. Secondly, he continued, outsiders are more objective and they have specialized technical knowledge, not always available on the local level. He pointed to the vast
amount of manpower required
to complete the project and
suggested a planning staff for
future guidance.
Q. Are 2-acre restrictions fair
or good planning?
A. High density development
places demands on services
which frequently burdens the
City unjustly. Other states, have
held on 3, 5 op even 10-acre
•zoning, he added.
Q. How can the City establish a mall between Harmon
and Maple without condemning
property?
A. Most of proposed mall is
now an alley. Phase I suggests
widening the alley; P h a s e II,
turning it into a mall. "North
Canton i« w>vy & CJtv and must
think as a City," said the planner. "A city can condemn property for the public welfare."
Q. What have the planners
recommended as proper use
for the Hoover right-of-way?
A. Nothing.
Q. To what extent was the
Stark County Regional Planning
Commission used ind if not,
why not?
A. The Regional Planning
Commission jnrov'ided substantial data and ifreojieht conferences with its Staff were held.
Commission services are competent, the planner added.
Following this meeting, on
July 8, City Council, in regular
session, approved the Master
'Plan. Witnessing Council's acceptance were .10 members of
the Citizens Advisory Committee.
Since that time, Council has
put several of the recommendations into action.
Following the recommendations outlined by Etoasco in its
Master Plan for North Canton,
City Council hired the Stark
County Regional Planning Commission to prepare a new zoning ordinance.
Preliminary drafts of this ordinance have already been submitted to Council. "We hope to
have the new zoning ordinance
"•well on its way to passage toy
the end of this year,' Mayor
Charles B. Strausser revealed.
He added that the City hopes
to have the regional planning
group start on a revision of the
regulations for platting subdivisions by the end of this year.
Many new ordinances have
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All Citizens Urged to Attend Planning Meeting Thurs
' , 8;fi0 E.M. at Hoover High School is time and place of first report of City Planners — Come — Hear —' Heljj